Both citizens were outside and retrieved their weapons from their vehicles. They confronted the shooter independently at about the same time and at least one of them repeatedly ordered him to disarm and surrender, which was refused. The shooter was very clearly still a serious threat and the police said today that this was a case of acting to protect the lives of others. The second guessing above is completely off base.

This is about two miles from my house in a restaurant district where there were likely several hundred potential victims. This could easily have become a very bad mass casualty situation had these two men not intervened.